TBS DISCOVERY - New quadrocopter frame

**Trappy** · 25th June 2012 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by Garbach

Damnit....that is the downside of living in New Zealand... stuf takes ages to get here!!!

on the upside, once you have it, you've got a pretty nice place to fly in

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German build log for those interested:
http://fpv-community.de/showthread.p...ERY-Quad-Frame

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Enthlapy (TWL) has discovered a pretty sweet motor/ESC combo for the discovery that is apparently very snappy on just 2200mAh 4S with 7min flight time. It's the perfect setup to do the kind of flying we like: adrenaline-packed. He's a very busy man and hard to reach, but he promised me some details very soon

**Chukmil** · 25th June 2012 05:57 PM

Ready to build a Discovery!

**Trappy** · 25th June 2012 07:16 PM

omg Chuckmill what's that contraption on the left?

and did I already mention I'm jealous about your FC?

**FPV FLYER** · 25th June 2012 11:32 PM

Make sure to put your build threads on RCgroups

**Garbach** · 26th June 2012 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Trappy

on the upside, once you have it, you've got a pretty nice place to fly in

True true, and just started to explore it. Just some raw footage slapped together of the east coast.

View this video on Vimeo

Still very much learning to fly the quad and after the beach part is the FPV maiden of the Flamewheel F450.. soon to be canibalised to become the new and improved TBS discovery.

Funny enought the DJI 10 x 5 props give me a lot less jello then the graupner E-props. All footage was shot in R5 (1080p) Shall try the R4 mode and see what the difference is.

My kit has been shipped so looking forward to building it!!

**kev.au** · 26th June 2012 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by FPV FLYER

Make sure to put your build threads on RCgroups

hahaha good job.

**Chukmil** · 26th June 2012 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by Trappy

omg Chuckmill what's that contraption on the left?

and did I already mention I'm jealous about your FC?

Lol..well that contraption is how I "modularized" my FPV gear. It allows me to move my FPV gear from one quad to another in a few seconds, attached with some velcro and rubberbands. 1 module holds the OSD, VTX & GPS the other holds the curent sensor, V lipo & camera, connected together with all the wires in a cable sleeve.
Of course this setup is not optimized for the Discovery frame but I will use it for testing until I add a permanent FPV system to the frame.